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translating...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:42 pm
by Tom Gysel
Trying my hands on a translation from Englishto tp. How would you revert this back to English?I'm curious if the meaning gets across: ni li ike tawa jan Alis: ona li lon poka telo lilili lon poka meli pi mama sama li pali ala.meli pi mama sama li lukin e kulupu lipu.tenpo mute lili la jan Alis li lukin lili e ona.ona li jo ala sitelen. thank you. Tom.  [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: translating...

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:18 am
by John E Clifford
Opening passage of Alice in Wonderland. nice but 'jo e sitelen ala'________________________________From: Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com>To: tokipona@yahoogroups.comSent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:42:32 PMSubject: [tokipona] translating...Trying my hands on a translation from Englishto tp. How would you revert this back to English?I'm curious if the meaning gets across:ni li ike tawa jan Alis: ona li lon poka telo lilili lon poka meli pi mama sama li pali ala.meli pi mama sama li lukin e kulupu lipu.tenpo mute lili la jan Alis li lukin lili e ona.ona li jo ala sitelen.thank you. Tom.[Non-text portions of this message have been removed][Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: translating...

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:14 am
by Jim Henry
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tom Gysel<to_mu1975@yahoo.com> wrote:> Trying my hands on a translation from English> to tp. How would you revert this back to English?> I'm curious if the meaning gets across:Pretty well, but I recognized the original before I had read the wholepassage, so it's not an ideal test of comprehensibility; better wouldbe a translation of something more obscure, or something original.--Jim Henryhttp://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/